{"id":70,"date":"2017-07-04T20:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T12:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/wp\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-07-05T20:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:17:20","slug":"benzoic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/07\/04\/benzoic-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"BENZOIC ACID"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table-border-s\" width=\"95%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"details\">CAS# 65-85-0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h1>Description:<\/h1>\n<p class=\"tinytype\"><b>BENZOIC ACID<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>Benzoic acid is a naturally occurring substance found in plants and can be synthetically produced as well; it is used in food and cosmetics as a preservative.<\/p>\n<p>It is to note that benzoic acid is limited in amount added to cosmetic as preservatives by many international governing body.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the European Union a maximum concentration of 1%. Benzoic Acid and its salts and esters are also permitted for use as preservatives in cosmetics and personal care products at a maximum concentration of 2.5% in rinse-off products (except oral care products), while for oral care product is 1.7% and 0.5% in leave on products<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 167\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Asean Cosmetic Directives (which HSA uses) follows similar limitation as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tinytype\"><strong>Cosmetic Function(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preservative<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"tinytype\">\n<p class=\"tinytype\">PH Adjuster<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAS# 65-85-0 Description: BENZOIC ACID: Benzoic acid is a naturally occurring substance found in plants and can be synthetically produced as well; it is used in food and cosmetics as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[25,10,21,22,27,26,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}